Hey!

what's the equivalent of C#'s "as" operator in VB.NET?

in C#, we can do safe casts as in:

human john = new Human();
man anyman = john as man;
if (anyman != null)
   // john is man, so go ahead

I know it is possible to use the "is" operator to check the type, but that's not optimized for performance. How's the optimized version for that in VB?

TIA